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Liqid Fulfils the Promise of Rack-Scale Composable Infrastructure with General Availability

[November 14, 2017]

Liqid Fulfils the Promise of Rack-Scale Composable Infrastructure with General Availability

Liqid,
the leader in composable infrastructure solutions, announced today at Supercomputing
2017 (SC17) that the Liqid Grid, an intelligent PCI (News - Alert)-Express (PCIe)
fabric switch, and Liqid Command Center software that enables bare-metal
composable infrastructure will be generally available to IT users in
Q1-2018. Liqid Grid enables once-static infrastructure to scale on
demand to effectively manage the explosion of data associated with
cloud, enterprise, high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial
intelligence- (AI), edge computing- and Internet of Things (IoT)-driven
environments, as well as other emerging, high-value, data-intensive
applications.

Liqid and industry-leading partners will demo a wide variety of use
cases for composability at SC17, highlighting how to instantly
orchestrate scalable bare-metal GPU and compute solutions for these
next-generation HPC workloads.

"To achieve true advancements in next-generation data center
architecture, static infrastructure must become far more dynamic to
accommodate the emerging and often overwhelming new data reality," said
Ashish Nadkarni, Program Director, Computing Platforms, IDC (News - Alert). "Composable
infrastructure technologies solve this problem by unlocking resources
from their final mechanical limitations and adapting to the data's
unpredictable ebb and flow to achieve new computing frontiers."

The Liqid Grid, a managed fabric switch, allows core system resources to
be instantly interconnected into bare-metal servers through a PCIe
fabric and dynamically reconfigured as needed. Liqid Command Center is
the powerful management software that automates, orchestrates and
composes physical servers from pools of bare-metal resources.

Developer's Kit: For customers looking to experience composable
infrastructure solutions from Liqid to immediately improve datacenter
resource utilization with a turn-key solution, a complete developer's
kit is available. With compute, network, storage and graphics
processing devices included in the kit, users are able to begin
developing their applications using Liqid Grid and Command Center with
a fully integrated, rack-mountable enclosure.

"Our industry must accommodate the shift to a dynamic, agile
infrastructure better suited to making real-time, AI-driven decisions,"
said Jay Breakstone, CEO, Liqid. "Liqid is proud to be at the center of
the AI revolution by providing the fundamental building blocks for this
paradigm shift. With the general availability of Liqid's Grid and
Command Center, users can take advantage of the industry's most
advanced, adaptive infrastructure to meet data challenges associated
with the age of artificial intelligence."

SC17 Partner Demonstrations

In Liqid's booth (#489) and with partners throughout the SC17 exhibits
hall, Liqid is demonstrating composable solutions. Learn more about how
Liqid Grid allows GPU-accelerated adaptive infrastructure to solve
today's biggest challenges in HPC. See collaboration with industry
leaders: